www.washingtontimes.com Topics: United Launch Alliancehttp://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/united-launch-alliance/?utm_medium=RSSwww.washingtontimes.com Topics: United Launch Allianceen-usMon, 07 May 2018 18:17:53 -0400Workers walk out on strike against rocket companyhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/7/workers-walk-out-on-strike-against-rocket-company/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>DECATUR, Ala. (AP) - Workers who build and launch rockets have gone on strike in Alabama, Florida and California.</p> <p>Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers voted Sunday to reject a three-year contract offer from United Launch Alliance of Centennial, Colorado.</p> <p>The strike, which began Monday, involves ...Mon, 07 May 2018 18:17:53 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/7/workers-walk-out-on-strike-against-rocket-company/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSClassified US spy satellite launched from Californiahttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/24/classified-us-spy-satellite-launched-from-californ/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - A spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office has been launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.</p> <p>A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying the classified NROL-42 satellite lifted off at 10:49 p.m. PDT Saturday. All systems were going well ...Sun, 24 Sep 2017 01:55:10 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/24/classified-us-spy-satellite-launched-from-californ/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSRocket engine plant announced for Alabama by Bezos' companyhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/26/rocket-engine-production-coming-to-huntsville/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - A private spaceflight company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos plans to build a powerful new rocket engine in Alabama for space flight, the company and state officials announced Monday.</p> <p>Blue Origin President Robert Meyerson said his company is seeking a production contract with United Launch ...Mon, 26 Jun 2017 11:24:40 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/26/rocket-engine-production-coming-to-huntsville/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSInvestigation: No evidence Pentagon favored space contractorhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/8/investigation-no-evidence-pentagon-favored-space-c/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>DENVER (AP) - The Defense Department's internal watchdog says it found no evidence to support an allegation that the Pentagon showed favoritism toward space contractor United Launch Alliance.</p> <p>The office of inspector general said Thursday that Brett Tobey, a former vice president of engineering for the Denver-based company, had recanted ...Thu, 08 Dec 2016 14:51:08 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/8/investigation-no-evidence-pentagon-favored-space-c/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSNew opportunities in spacehttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/2/new-opportunities-in-space/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>For the better part of the last three decades, commercial space launch was a specialty of the Russians and the Europeans while the United States lagged far behind. In 2011 and 2012, the United States was responsible for just two of 38 commercial launches while the next largest and most ...Duncan HunterSun, 02 Oct 2016 19:36:10 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/2/new-opportunities-in-space/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSGREG AUTRY: A dangerous partnership with Russiahttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/7/greg-autry-a-dangerous-partnership-with-russia/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>It is with a terrible sense of deja vu that I find myself again warning American lawmakers about our reliance on Russian rocket engines to loft military satellites. For more than a decade, America's workhorse rocket, the United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Atlas V, has been powered with RD-180 engines imported ...Greg AutrySun, 07 Feb 2016 19:20:07 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/7/greg-autry-a-dangerous-partnership-with-russia/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSPentagon seeks repeal of Russian rocket banhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/15/pentagon-seeks-repeal-of-russian-rocket-ban/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>The Pentagon has officially said it would face "significant challenges" to ensuring military and intelligence access to space if Congress doesn't loosen restrictions on the use of Russian rocket engines, but top lawmakers aren't buying that and are accusing the military of slow-walking.</p> <p>The ongoing dispute between the Pentagon and ...Jeffrey Scott ShapiroMon, 15 Jun 2015 18:59:10 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/15/pentagon-seeks-repeal-of-russian-rocket-ban/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSSpaceX calls on House panel end 'subsidy' of competing launch companyhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/17/spacex-calls-on-house-panel-end-subsidy-of-competi/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>SpaceX asked the House Armed Services Committee during a Tuesday hearing to stop giving their competitor what they say amounts to an unfair advantage in competing for national security satellite launch contracts.</p> <p>At the center of SpaceX concerns is what they charge amounts to a $1 billion subsidy and effective ...Jeffrey Scott ShapiroTue, 17 Mar 2015 20:53:08 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/17/spacex-calls-on-house-panel-end-subsidy-of-competi/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSContracting official's new job raises questionshttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/23/contracting-officials-new-job-raises-questions/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p> McLEAN, Va. (AP) - SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and a watchdog group are questioning whether a former senior Air Force contracting official acted inappropriately by taking an executive position with a private contractor just months after awarding a multibillion-dollar rocket-launch contract that greatly benefits his new employer.</p> <p> Musk, ...MATTHEW BARAKATFri, 23 May 2014 17:21:53 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/23/contracting-officials-new-job-raises-questions/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSSpace X lawsuit grounds Russian rocket engine buyshttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/1/space-x-lawsuit-grounds-russian-rocket-engine-buys/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>A federal judge has granted an injunction that keeps a Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture from procuring Russian-made rocket engines used in some U.S. military satellite launches.</p> <p>The ruling in U.S. Federal Claims Court this week came in response to a recent lawsuit by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. that charges that ...Jim McElhattonThu, 01 May 2014 15:19:36 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/1/space-x-lawsuit-grounds-russian-rocket-engine-buys/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSRocket carrying spy satellite launches from Calif.http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/29/rocket-carrying-spy-satellite-launches-calif/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) &mdash; A massive rocket carrying a spy satellite for the U.S. government launched from the central California coast Wednesday.</p> <p>The Delta IV Heavy rocket soared off the launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base, about 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles, and sped toward ...Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:29:03 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/29/rocket-carrying-spy-satellite-launches-calif/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS